Sentences with phrase «international treaty talks»

There's a lot of mostly wishful talk about the potential impact of the E.P.A. power plant rules on international treaty talks this year and next.

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Davies has previously suggested «feminsist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it» and in December he spoke for over an hour in an effort to talk out a backbench bill calling on the government to ratify an international treaty on domestic violence.

A few months back, there was a World Intellectual Property Organization meeting talking about an international treaty on exceptions to copyright for the visually impaired.

The ethical dimensions of global warming, and the deep divisions between rich and poor, are likely to shape discussions next month at the next round of international climate - treaty talks in Indonesia.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

They have been criticized by environmentalists as an end run around the international climate talks aimed at drafting a new treaty on climate by the end of 2009.

[UPDATE, 8/6: China's lead envoy in climate - treaty talks expressed optimism that a new international agreement on climate will be negotiated this year, but stressed that there is no chance his country will accept hard targets for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.]

[T] he divisions between wealthy countries and poorer countries that are making such a treaty difficult, and have long bedeviled international climate talks, were on display yet again in Berlin.

Hansen told reporters during a press call on Monday that he and he colleagues decided to publish the paper in an open access, open peer review journal to ensure the results were available to international leaders ahead of the Paris climate treaty talks in December.

Durban, South Africa — After nearly two weeks of stalled progress by the United States at the international climate talks, U.S. youth spoke out for a real, science - based climate treaty.

Even keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius — the target for international climate treaty talks — will force many species to the brink of extinction, threatening food supplies, human health, economies and communities.

So talks aimed at ramping up international action to cut carbon emissions and speed up progress on the treaty have begun in the German city of Bonn, attended by representatives of 193 governments.

The new president's pledge to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and international climate treaty talks, catapulted global warming into the headlines like never before.

The talks, involving more than 190 nations, are expected to produce a wide - ranging interim political declaration but stop short of proposing a binding international treaty.

Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this.